That furthest Nations filles with awfull dread,

Pardon the boldnesse of thy basest thrall,

That dare discourse of so diuine a read,

As thy great iustice praysed ouer all:

The instrument whereof loe here thy Artegall[244].

FOOTNOTES:

[238] Proem i 3 prime. 1596

[239] 9 worse and worse 1609

[240] ii 2 at earst] as earst 1611

[241] iv 7 from, 1596, 1609